R help - May 2018 - Installing required packages with an R package

Dear All,
I am preparing an R-package and I would like to ask how do I make it check
whether dependencies (i.e. other packages) are already installed in a
machine and if they are not installed to automatically install them during
its installation.

Thanks,
Polychronis

Polychronis Kostoulas

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This is better posted on the R-packages mailing list, not here.

Cheers,
Bert

Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and
sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )

On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 11:06 AM, Polychronis Kostoulas <
polychronis.kostoulas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
> I am preparing an R-package and I would like to ask how do I make it check
> whether dependencies (i.e. other packages) are already installed in a
> machine and if they are not installed to automatically install them during
> its installation.
>
> Thanks,
> Polychronis
>
> Polychronis Kostoulas
>
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>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/
> posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
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R-package-devel is the better venue, as r-packages is only for announcements.

On May 7, 2018 12:17:34 PM PDT, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>This is better posted on the R-packages mailing list, not here.
>
>Cheers,
>Bert
>
>Bert Gunter
>
>"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
>and
>sticking things into it."
>-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
>
>On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 11:06 AM, Polychronis Kostoulas <
>polychronis.kostoulas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>> I am preparing an R-package and I would like to ask how do I make it
>check
>> whether dependencies (i.e. other packages) are already installed in a
>> machine and if they are not installed to automatically install them
>during
>> its installation.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Polychronis
>>
>> Polychronis Kostoulas
>>
>>         [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/
>> posting-guide.html
>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>>
>
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>
>______________________________________________
>R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>PLEASE do read the posting guide
>http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
-- 
Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.

> On May 7, 2018, at 11:06 AM, Polychronis Kostoulas
<polychronis.kostoulas at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> I am preparing an R-package and I would like to ask how do I make it check
> whether dependencies (i.e. other packages) are already installed in a
> machine and if they are not installed to automatically install them during
> its installation.
> 
The right place to ask is the package-dev mailing list. It is possible to list
dependencies and then users can specify dependencies=TRUE in their call to
install.packages. I also know that there have been super-packages that do
install multiple other packages. When you issue the command `library(tidyverse)`
you get a boatload of packages loaded at once, so why not look at that example.
It has R code in several modules.  The other mechanism I've seen is to
construct a github page that has the needed code.

> Thanks,
> Polychronis
> 
> Polychronis Kostoulas
> 
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> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA

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